Jardin des Senteurs within Bercy park
Jardin des Senteurs is just one of the many smaller designed gardens found within Parc de Bercy. More information and details at www.eutouring.com/images_parc_de_bercy.html
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The most famous avenue in the world, the Champs Elysees in Paris
The Champs Elysees has a full name of the Avenue des Champs Elysees, which the name translates to Elysian Fields in French, that is meant to be a place of the blessed and a resting place of Gods in Greek mythology. The Champs Elysees is perhaps one of the most famous avenues within the world and in France is called La plus belle avenue du monde, which translated means the most beautiful avenue in the world and with its magnificence it's no wonder, but this famous tree lined avenue actually didn't begin out in this manner. In fact, the name stems from the very fact that this whole area was originally fields and market gardens with farmers selling their goods to the local Paris markets . It was Marie de Medici, who was the wife of King Henry IV, that wanted to clear a number of these fields and extend the garden of the Palais des Tuileries at the former Palais du Louvre , which is now the Louvre Museum, by creating an avenue, and it was before long full of trees that were plan...